The house at which Mr. Gee was entrapped and chained
down was thrown open on Monday to the public at sixpence a bead. The esiti- bition was crowded : and if the present occupant would engage Mr Geehimsel i" for a few days only, the representation will he complete, and exquisitely interesting.—Standard.
On Stieday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a postchaise, in which was a young lady, was dtiven through Highgate very furiowsla- by two postillions, and attended by three persons who had the appear- ance of gentlemen, from which she cried out" Murder ! Save me ! 0 save me!" Her voice subsided from weakness into faint efforts of the same cries of distress ; but as there was at that time no possibility of relief, they hastily drove towards Finchley Common. The same car- riage was seen, anti the same outcries heard, as it passed through Isling- ton, with the additional circumstance of postillions being dressed in light blue jackets and pink striped shirts.— True Sun.
Considerable curiosity has been excited in the City by the appear- ance of a steam-carriage gliding along amidst the other vehicles, and ac- commodating itself to all stoppages and reduction of speed neceee.sey to a thronged thoroughfare. No doubt it required all the skill of tbse pilot, as it had occasion in Cornhill and in the Poultry to reduce its speed, stop sometimes suddenly, and make way through very narrow spaces. It cleared every impediment, however, without the slightest contact; and running down Cheapside, turned up St. Martin's-le- Grand, and stopped at the New Post-office to take up a passenger*, which it bad also done in Chcapside. The self-propelled vehicle them rim up Aiderg te S!reet ; rid C towell I oa I Lao the City Road, at
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The second sun c,f r Ju! n Pringle was drowned in the Thames, between Erith and Wouli; ich, en Whitsunday. lie was on a sailing excursion in a boat with another young gentleman; who gives the fol- lowing account of the accident.
"We had sailed down the river as far as the Half-way-house, between Erith sad Woolwich, and in consequence of the adverse wind and tide were unable to return. A barge, pas.ing t:p the river, and i..?eirig our situation, bailed us, sad offered to tow us up. We then milled a little way up the river, and the barge tacked across, coming towards us. We came alongside, and I went to the stern of our boat to catch a rope thrown to me, which, as the barge passed us, I fastened to the thwart in the bow of our boat. As we came alongside of the barge, Mr. Prit.gle went to the bow, either as I imagine with the intention of getting on to the barge, or for the purpose of preventing our boat striking against it. 1, being intent upon securing the boat, heard no spire& or noise, aid therefore thought he had got on to the barge, till one of the bargemen asking me where he was, I told him on the barge. He, seeing no one there, immediately called out, there was a man overboard,' and we looked about in expectation of seeing him rise, but unhappily no traces of him were visible."
The deceased was a young man of fine promise, a cadet in the Mili- tary at Woolwich. His father came to town on the day following the accident, just in time to learn the distressing news. The body was found a few days afterwards, floating near Gravesend.
An Inquest was held on Tuesday night, on the body of a woman, name unknown, which was accidentally found in a cellar in Ewer Street, Southwark, on Sunday evening. It appeared, from the evidence of the surgeon, that all the bones were in a perfectly sound state ; and as the flesh had been eaten off the face and neck, and part of the body, by rats, it was impossible to state what had been the cause of her death. The inquest was adjourned till Monday.
A Coroner's Jury on Saturday was summoned to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Harriet Venes, the wife of a builder in Marshall Street. It appeared that Mrs. Venes was about to cross is part of Regent Street on the previous Saturday, when a cab- man driving fast called to her to step back, which she did ; and he pulled tip his horse at the same minute. Mrs. Venes then made a curve, so as to pass before the cab; but the horse was too quick for her, and knocked her down, the wheel of the cab going over her. She was dreadfully hurt on the side, and was taken home, and died the following Thursday. The Jury found a verdict of "Accidental death," as it did not appear that the cabman had been careless.
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